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Juelz Santana was arrested late last
week in New Jersey after allegedly making terrorist threats. TMZ
reports that’s Juelz was booked for disorderly conduct but
released hours later on $46,500 bail. "Police impounded my
Bentley so I guess I gotta bring the rose out! They thought that was
my only car," Juelz wrote on Twitter.

You can watch Broken Social Scene cover
U2, the Beastie Boys and Rage Against the Machine here.

Mayor Mike Winder of Utah has finally
come clean about his moonlighting gig as a journalist. Winder took up
writing upbeat stories about West Valley for the Deseret News
under an aliasbecause he felt the local media were
covering too many crime stories. "I thought about all the people
just reading about crime in our city and nothing better," Winder
said Friday. "I'm trying to stand up for us because we do get
the short end of the stick — negative stories."

Julius Jones, a black midtown worker
from New York, is suing his co-workers who he says dressed up as Ku
Klux Klan members and harassed him. Jones is filing a discrimination
lawsuit and suit for $35 million.

Oprah has been given an honorary Oscar. "I
never imagined receiving an Oscar, especially after being a
part of that team of assholes that made Preciousfor doing what is part of my calling, part of my being,"
said Winfrey. The Oscar is actually the Academy of Motion Picture’s
Arts and Science’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and is actually
sort of a big deal.